It doesn’t take much deductive reasoning, or even a sensitive ear, to pick up the commonalities between country music and ranchera. But if you need the point illustrated, Mireya Ramos & The Poor Choices will do it for you while…
They say it takes a lifetime to write your first album, and Roberta Lea has lived a full one that informs Too Much of a Woman. Lea, a former high school Spanish teacher and mother of two, brings her self-assurance…
Buffalo Nichols is nothing if not blunt. He and his former musical partner, Joanna Rose, performed what is still the single best musical critique of the supposed safe haven of the Americana genre. He had no problem putting on the…
This review is also cross-posted on our sister site, Rainbow Rodeo. Karen and the Sorrows pulled a Beyonce and dropped her latest EP, Why Do We Want What We Want? this morning. Before we get into the EP, though, it’s…
Lots of great music came out this past Friday — Childers, McBryde, Joan Osborne, Julian Taylor…and even more that I know I’m missing as some of Americana and country’s best angle for year-end playlists. But the first album I hit…